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Dear Everyone Who’s Buying Pokemon Black/White Today

I hate you.

Sincerely,

A certain blogger who is working in the lab and doing exams constantly and can’t play until Friday and wonders how she’s supposed to be the very best like no one ever was if she starts a week late, goddamnit

Bright side: You can find out which color sold more copies in America because of whatever stupid cultural connotations we apply to colors, and then buy the OTHER one so your exclusive Pokemon will be more valuable in trade.

Don’t worry too much about it. The only Game Boy I have is the original one roughly the size and weight of a brick. The only Pokemon I’ve every played was Red. At least you’ve been able to keep up with it!

I wish I had your will power. I bought it on the EU release day, and I’ve already had to give it to one of my friends so I don’t spend too much time on it when my dissertation needs to be done.I don’t want a re-hash of diamond, 80 hours in the first week isn’t good.

Nuh-uh! Gary started on time, and he was not the very best at all. If we declare Gary to be (0,0) then we see a steady rise from him to Ash, and given that Ash was only a few hours late, Jen ought to be a great many times bester after a whole week. QED :)

Gold started on time and beat Red (who is pretty much Ash) at the end of his titular game. Also note Gold’s rival started later and gets trounced.Also, the protagonist in Ruby/Saph (I won’t use a specific gender choice) technically starts at negative time since you rescue your respective prof. Your protagonist then goes on to trash TWO rivals who start later than you.No correlation can thus be determined between very bestness and start time.

Because pokemon is marketed as a “kids’ game”, and most pay-per-month MMOs are played by adults with income.Also, rating boards. Online interactions can’t be rated, and I don’t think the creators want to be exposing kids to the “wtf noob fag” culture in MMOs.

Just to show my age and that not everyone on the internet likes Pokemon: WTF are you people talking about? All I know about Pokemon is that some dumb cute yellow thing is supposed to be some great combatant, and that it is the absolute perfection of the notion of the exploitative marketing driven children’s TV show.

Pokemon: Where a 2′ 11″goldfish is allowed to completely break the laws of physics and transform into a 21′ 4″ flying dragon.For that matter, Pokemon: Where a 2′ 11″ isn’t seen as a freakish anomoly.~R~

I bought White on Sunday, but I’ll admit, if it weren’t for various communities on the Internet I follow, I’d have waited until the price was cheaper. As it is I’m playing pretty slowly because I don’t have tons of time, either. :)

What’s really sad is that all the Pokemon merch in the US is not even a quarter of what exists in Japan, and Pokemon is not even the most merch-saturated show over there. That would probably go to either Doraemon or Anpan-man, both cartoons that have been running since the 60’s (!) with their characters on pretty much every imaginable product.

Don’t worry, I’m starting late too. A childhood friend and I are planning to buy them tomorrow (when we are both free) and start our games at the same time, just like we did with Gold and Silver when we were 11. It’s going to be fantastically nostalgic.Hurray for twenty-something Pokémon fans! :D